Category: Tool Box

This week I had a SSD tank and I was forced to install a fresh OS. While setting up my workstation, I decided to test VM VirtualBox > VMWare. While I was setting up my VM, I couldn’t grab wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/<latest>.tar.gz

I wasn’t sure what was going on so I pinged kernel.org, no packets returned. I was completely unaware that kernel.org DNS’s got hacked. Linus released Linux 3.1 on Github and I needed to get git up fast.

Installing Git On CentOS 5.5

Quickly, I checked the Webtatic repo for git. Add the repo with this line:

Installing Gitolite For Private Repo

Below is the quick install guide for gitolite – for all you that want a private repo. I’m currently installing this on a VM just to test it out. Eventually I will move my repo into a datacenter. For now, I just want a private repo so I can seamlessly push / pull between my desktop and laptop while having redundant backups of my projects.

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If you’re comfortable with Unix and ssh, the following steps should work. (However, gitolite has lots and lots of useful features; don’t miss out on them by skipping the excellent documentation!)

You’re done. Now run git clone git@server:gitolite-admin on your workstation and add users and repos.

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Head over to https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite if your looking for further documentation on gitolit. I’m assuming this will be the best for a private git repo. I will update this post with more information once I have my workstation / laptop setup. Come to think of it, I bet I could write a great post about developing between work, home, and mobile.

If you are seeking a dark font & color scheme for Netbeans, try out Oblivion Revival. I am use to coding with Notepad++’s Monokai so I dug up two nice Netbeans Font & Color Schemes. >Go to Tools -> Options then select Import and browse to the .zip file. Click Okay and restart the IDE!

In this article, we will work on setting up a LAMP environment for uBuntu 11.04. As an added bonus, I will setup WordPress 3.2 in the environment for you nerds. As you may notice in previous posts, I have a nice little lappy which allows me to dev on the run.

Installing LAMP onto uBuntu 11.04

First thing is first, we need to install tasksel then run it via terminal.

[code lang=”bash”]
sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel[/code]

Select LAMP Server and proceed to install it!

While you are installing LAMP, you will be prompted to set a password for MySQL root.

First of all, /var/www/ directory is set for root user only. We want to allow our IDE’s, such as Netbeans or Vi/Vim/Nano have permissions to write to this directory. So let’s sudo su and chown /var/www/